(~s, deluding, ~d)
1.
If you ~ yourself, you let yourself believe that something is true, even though it is not true.
The President was deluding himself if he thought he was safe from such action...
We ~ ourselves that we are in control...
I had ~d myself into believing that it would all come right in the end.
VERB: V pron-refl, V pron-refl that, V pron-refl into -ing
2.
To ~ someone into thinking something means to make them believe what is not true.
Television ~s you into thinking you have experienced reality, when you haven’t...
He had been unwittingly ~d by their mystical nonsense.
= deceive
VERB: V n into -ing, be V-ed